Audrey Green: the café entrance in the National Portrait Gallery

Audrey Green, National Portrait Gallery

Walk-ins only
Marilyn Monroe’s portrait installed at Audrey Green, a timelapse
David LaChapelle’s Coming of Age, Hollywood arrives at Audrey Green

Audrey Green is a light-filled café and brunch spot in central London, located within the National Portrait Gallery on Charing Cross Road.

About Audrey

Inspired by Breakfast at Tiffany’s , it offers a calm, airy space for coffee, brunch and light dining just moments from Trafalgar Square.

The nameAudrey Hepburn, who started out as a chorus girl at Ciro’s nightclub on Orange Street, now the gallery’s own archive and offices.
Opening hours
Opens at 10amSunday · until 5.30pm
Monday9.30am–5.30pm
Tuesday9.30am–5.30pm
Wednesday9.30am–5.30pm
Thursday9.30am–5.30pm
Friday9.30am–9pm
Saturday10am–9pm
Sunday10am–5.30pm
Find us
National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place
London WC2H 0HE

The National Portrait Gallery on St Martin’s Place, off Trafalgar Square. Audrey Green has its own street entrance on the East Weston Wing.

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No bookings here, just walk in. For anything else, our reservations team are on 020 3597 9908.

Walk-ins only

The Art

Angus McBean · Audrey Hepburn, 1950
Angus McBean · Audrey Hepburn, 1950Remastered from a small archive original by Alan McFetridge and printed at a scale never seen before. At the entrance, and again at the centre of the ballet triptych.
Yevonde
YevondeEight colour portraits from the 1930s, made with three separate colour plates for magazine covers. Paul Robeson, Vivien Leigh, George Bernard Shaw among them.
Rick Guest · What Lies Beneath
Rick Guest · What Lies BeneathMelissa Hamilton, Eric Underwood and Tamara Rojo above the coffee counter: dancers as themselves, not dancing.
The Rotunda
The RotundaA changing display that follows the gallery’s exhibitions.
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Good To Know

  1. What is Audrey Green?
    A café inside the National Portrait Gallery: speciality coffee, tea, sandwiches, salads, cakes and brunch dishes, counter service, walk-ins only.
  2. Do I need to book?
    No. Walk in, order at the counter.
  3. Do I need a gallery ticket?
    No. There is a street-level entrance of its own.
  1. What is Larry’s?
    The cocktail bar in the vaults one floor down, with live jazz Wednesday to Saturday. Same building, its own entrance.
  2. Whose portraits are these?
    Audrey Hepburn by Angus McBean, Yevonde’s 1930s colour portraits, Rick Guest’s dancers and more, curated from the gallery’s archive.
  3. Do you take cash?
    No. We are cashless: card and phone payments only.

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